Thinking (way) outside the box to figure out what makes it "pretty neat," I guess you could draw parallels to how it lived its life and ended up a...
The winning bidder then executed a jump bid to $20,000,000 to gain notoriety. TPGs didn't offer to create a special "pre-release" label? Buyer...
Don't dwell on having a matched set in a single grade. Buy nice 64s of the common dates and attractive lower grades of the tough ones. My 28 is a...
It means the spots aren't big or bad enough for them to say "environmental damage." Without the spots, they may have called it 65BN, since the...
1723 Rosa Americana penny [img] and 2 pence [img]
As silly as assigning numerical grades to some errors is, you would grade this as you would grade any non-error coin. Wear: Not seeing any....
Looks like I'm at table 1115.
I currently don't have a good focus stacking setup, so I'll show pointer of what I do with my normal workflow. My shots like this are limited to...
Reason enough to buy a certified one from a reputable seller and be done with it. Pricing is pretty flat up to MS63-64, so there's not much...
I'll be there Thursday through Saturday. I'll have my photo gear in tow this time. I'll be at the PCGS lunch and perhaps the NGC lunch. VAM...
I'm guessing it's weighs closer to 20 grams than 33.
The crap photo would make me pass on the coin. It might be a nice coin, but 22-D Peace dollars in 63 are common enough that you should be able to...
I'm thinking that the spike in the value of the Truman and Ike sets is due to people wanting to build a complete set as the end of the series...
The first printing is sold out, but I'm going to have a second printing for my 2018 coin calendar. $15 (includes shipping in the US) gets you a...
Not aware of any PLs. Population reports don't list any. The 1900-B I have, which I posted on the other thread, is the closest to PL, but it's a...
Large S is unique to 80-S. Spotted it right away. I assume the other is either 80-S or 81-S based the overall appearance.
Read about white balance in the manual. If you're shooting raw and post-processing using Camera Raw, then you can easily change the white balance...
Not for normal coin photography, but I use most of one of these mounted to my microscope. [IMG] I've taped a business card over part of the...
And the one I missed. 1904/898-B [IMG]
Mintage numbers are available here. They don't necessarily reflect what was released or what survives. The 1921-B had its entire mintage melted,...
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